Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A beautiful genus of American partridges, of the subfamily Ortyginæ or Odontophorinæ, having the head adorned with a long arrowy crest composed of two slender keeled plumes; the mountain quails.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- proper noun A genus of birds including the mountain quail of the western U. S.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- proper noun A taxonomic
genus within thefamily Odontophoridae .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun mountain quail of western United States
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Q quail: dich'Valley quail (Lophortyx quite, be: do: - 'a: k'inin'-ts'eh [= 'not-noise is made-it californicus, California quail) is heard'] it is quiet, one hears no sound • na: k'ine Mountain quail • ts'ima'-xosin [= 'ts'ima'-it is'] it's quiet, a quiet (Oreortyx pictus) person; ts'ima'-ch'ixosin he's quiet; ts'ima'-xo: sing quarrel: ch'i¬idzehsdila 'they be quiet!
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